We performed a comparison between Datadog and DX Spectrum based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"Using the data, our operation teams works with the dashboards to get their statistics, analytics, etc."
"I find the greatest feature is being able to search across logs from various microservices."
"By moving to Datadog, we did not need to manage our own monitoring infrastructure anymore."
"The most valuable features are the dashboards and the reporting."
"The network map is crucial in identifying bottlenecks and determining what needs more attention."
"The most valuable feature of Datadog is its logs."
"It has enhanced the performance of my team."
"All networks (or network equipment) are monitored through CA Spectrum."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The Global Collections are what I found to be most valuable. With the Global Collections, you're able to organize and categorize devices into "folders," or functional groups and categories, so that it doesn't matter which SpectroSERVER those devices are on."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The granular access control that it provided so that you could only see devices that were related to what you were working on was great. I couldn't see the entire inventory of devices. I could only see the ones that were related to my work. It has got a very granular access control component."
"The fault management is perfect."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The logging could be improved in the future."
"I'm not sure if Datadog can monitor K8s deployments in real-time. For instance, being able to see a deployment step by step visually. This would be helpful if there were any incidents during the deployment."
"We would really like to see more from the Service Catalog."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"All solutions have some area to improve, and in Datadog they can improve their overall technology moving forward."
"We would like to see smaller or shorter tutorials and video sessions."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"Ingesting data from various sources to monitor the log metrics of the system can always improve so that, if something goes wrong, the right teams are alerted."
"It was somewhat complex to implement."
"If nobody else has said the documentation needs improvement, let's go there. I understand, you can either write about it or you can do it. And most of us would rather they do it, but now that they've done it, those of us that didn't do it, we need to go and find: "Where did they write about this to tell us how to do it?" That's always lacking."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to monitor the network shortly after installing the software and adding an auto-discovery function."
"It doesn't really allow for multi-tenancy. If you're an ISP or an MSP and you want to use this tool to provide these types of fault management services to your customers, you would need a separate SpectroSERVER for each customer..."
"The CA Technologies sales team destroyed their relationship with our business units."
"I would like to see them eliminate the Java console. The user interface for this is a Java applet that runs on your desktop, and it is very problematic for us."
"For us, the implementation was quite complex but it's because of the large number of different environments we're dealing with."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
Datadog is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 137 reviews while DX Spectrum is ranked 13th in Network Monitoring Software with 115 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while DX Spectrum is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes. See our DX Spectrum vs. Datadog report.
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